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They who live without Love are dead.
But the worst of all deaths is this —
That the loving soul be cowardly toward Love;
For perfect Love is never cowardly,
But claims its rights, which it lacks.

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Love has seven names,
Which, as you know, are appropriate to her;
Chain, light, live coal, and fire — dew, living spring, and hell.

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They wish to dissuade me
From all that the forces of Love urge me to.
They do not understand it, and I cannot explain it to them.
I must then live out what I am;
What Love counsels my spirit,
In this is my being: for this reason I will do my best.

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Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.

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